This Europa classic blends book love and bookstore love with a brilliantly conceived and entertaining mystery and is a delight for readers of all tastes.
From the author of "A Novel Bookstore" comes further proof of a prodigious and remarkable literary imagination at work. Cosse takes one of the most famous news events of recent world history--the fatal car crash of Lady Diana Frances Spencer, then Princess of Wales--as the starting point for a novel as intelligent as it is gripping.
Edith can hardly believe it when she learns that Fadila, her 60-year-old housemaid, is completely illiterate. She thus decides to become Fadila's French teacher. But teaching is more challenging that she thought. But they begin to understand one other as never before.
Elegantly mixing the mystery and literary fiction genres, French author Coss presents a paean to the love of good books that is sure to keep readers riveted from the first page to the last.
